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Solo Exhibitions

2008
What Little Girls Are Made Of, Heriard-Cimino Gallery
New Orleans, LA

2006
Rendered Adolescence, Heriard-Cimino Gallery
New Orleans, LA

2004
Play, Gulf Art Space
Fairhope, AL

2003
The Dialogue of Gesture, Heriard-Cimino Gallery
New Orleans, LA

2001
Replica, Heriard-Cimino Gallery
New Orleans, LA

1999
Alteration, Heriard-Cimino Gallery
New Orleans, LA

1997
Ritual Boxes: A Repository, Heriard-Cimino Gallery
New Orleans, LA

1996
Audra Kohout, Earth and Fire Gallery
New Orleans, LA

Group Exhibitions

2006
Contact/Gulf Coast, The Survival of Art and Its Artists, Art League of Long Island, Dix Hills, NY

Made in New Orleans, A Survey of Contemporary Art from the Crescent City Arkansas, Shreveport, New Orleans, Mobile

Surviving the Hurricane, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA

The Culture of Queer, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans and Lohman Gallery, New York

2005
The Hybrid, Palma Gallery, New Orleans, LA

2004
Contemporary Allegories: Artists from Louisiana and Texas, Baton Rouge Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA

20x20x20: A National Compact Competition, LSU Union Art Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA

2003
Southern Current, Contemporary Art Center, Mobile, AL

Saltline Biennial, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL

New Work, Maralyn Wilson Gallery, Birmingham, AL

Texas National, Austin State University, Austin, TX

Stitched, Caroll Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

2002
Louisiana Artist: Mixed Media, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

New Work, Heriard-Cimino Gallery, New Orleans, LA

2001
Divergent Views, Heriard-Cimino Gallery, New Orleans, LA

Exploring Assemblage, Barrister Gallery, New Orleans, LA

Group Exhibition, Maralyn Wilson Gallery, Birmingham, AL

2000
Seven Muses, Heriard-Cimino Gallery, New Orleans, LA

1998

The Ghost of Cornell, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA

Group Exhibition, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA

New Work by Gallery Artists, Heriard-Cimino Gallery, New Orleans, LA

Born Again! Found Objects in Contemporary Southern Art, Lenox Square Promenade, Atlanta, GA

1997
Heriard-Cimino Presents, Heriard-Cimino Gallery, New Orleans, LA

1995
Celebrate Art Against AIDS, Fountain of Youth Gallery, New Orleans, LA

Bibliography

2006
Marian McLellan. “Artists and the Storm,” New Orleans Art Review, April/May/June, New Orleans, LA

D. Eric Bookhardt. “Drowned Art,” Gambit Weekly, New Orleans, LA

D. Eric Bookhardt. “Fairy Tales of the Reconstruction,” Gambit Weekly, New Orleans, LA

2005
Doug MacCash. “Gay Pride,” The Times Picayune, Lagniappe, New Orleans, LA

Doug MacCash. “Culture Shock,” The Times Picayune, Lagniappe, New Orleans, LA

D. Eric Bookhardt. “From Myth to Mutants,” Gambit Weekly, New Orleans, LA

“Modern Art Exhibit Reveals Underlying Darkness,” The Daily Reveille, Baton Rouge, LA

“A Shared Approach to Their Art,” The Advocate Magazine, Baton Rouge, LA

2003
Sarah Clunis. “Being in Dreaming,” New Orleans Art Review, September/October, New Orleans, LA.

Doug MacCash. “Dolls Playing Doctor…” The Times Picayune, Lagniappe, New Orleans, LA, 29 Aug.

2002
Thomasine Bartlett. “The Forbidden and the Secret,” New Orleans Art Review, New Orleans, LA

2001
D. Eric Bookhardt. “Shadow Dancing,” Gambit Weekly, New Orleans, LA, December 14

Doug MacCash. “Noir Sculpture Puts Love in a Box,” The Times-Picayune, Lagniappe, New Orleans, LA, December 14

2000
D. Eric Bookhardt. “Viewing the Muses”, Gambit Weekly, New Orleans, LA , June 27

1999
Christopher Fischer. “Audra Kohout’s Melancholy,” New Orleans Art Review, New Orleans, LA

Doug MacCash. The Times-Picayune, New Orleans, LA August 20

D. Eric Bookhardt. “Surrealism Revisited”, Gambit Weekly, New Orleans, LA, August 17

D. Eric Bookhardt. Art Papers, Atlanta, GA May/June

1997
Marian S. McLellan. The New Orleans Art Review, New Orleans, Sept./Oct.

Chris Waddington. “Show Me Something Mister!,” The Times-Picayune, Lagniappe, New Orleans, LA, Sept. 5

D. Eric Bookhardt. Art Papers, Atlanta, GA, May/June

Chris Waddington. The-Times Picayune, Lagniappe, New Orleans, LA, Feb. 21

D. Eric Bookhardt. “Blue Velvet and Bruised Valentines,” Gambit Weekly, New Orleans, LA Feb. 11

1995
D. Eric Bookhardt. “Artful Alternatives: A Late Summer Miscellany,” Gambit Weekly, New Orleans, LA Sept. 5

1994
D. Eric Bookhardt. Art Papers, Atlanta, GA Sept./Oct.

D. Eric Bookhardt. “The Naked and the Nude,” Gambit Weekly,
New Orleans, LA June

Education

1994
University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA

1992
Delgado Community College, New Orleans, LA

Lectures

2004
ArtSpeak, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA

1998
ArtSpeak, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA


Awards and Honors

2006
Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant

Visual Artist Relief Grant, Arts Council of New Orleans

SweetArts Grant, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA

2003
Best of Show, Saltline Biennial, Mobile, AL

Honorable Mention, Texas National, Austin State University, Austin, TX

2002
Second Place, LSU Mixed Media Show, Baton Rouge, LA

2001
Grant, Louisiana Division of the Arts

2000
Grant, Louisiana Division of the Arts

1999
Grant, Louisiana Division of the Arts

1998
Grant, Louisiana Division of the Arts

1991
Honorable Mention, Juried Student Show, Delgado, New Orleans, LA